Anxiety Disorders Support Group

I thought that I should introduce myself before I start to use this website. I suffer from major anxiety but I don't seem to have anxiety attacks. My problem is that I do not want to get out of my bed. This is a large problem when you are a married woman with a full time job and two teenage kids!

I spend as much of my free time in bed as I can. No TV, no books, just the silence of my thoughts which are 95% worries. I am on meds and am in therapy but nothing is helping. My house is a mess. I am not getting as much work done as I should. One of my kids worries about me and the other takes advantage of the lack of supervision. My husband mostly has given up.

There is so much that I could be doing in life but I am waisting it due to anxiety.

Anyway, that is me.

I hope that there is help for me. I hope that I can help someone else.

MDfarm

(I am MDfarm because I have so many animals.)

Post edited by: bindiboo, at: 01/01/2010 11:49 PM

I can understand how you feel. I grew up with a Mom that was anxious all the time. She grew more and more anxious until she finally stopped leaving the house. She was on too many pills to count. It turned out that she had a medical condition that was either missed altogether or misdiagnosed. Have you been checked out medically by a medical Dr.? Or were you just told to take a few anxiety meds and sent on your way?

I have been misdiagnosed several times, too. Every psychiatrist wants to diagnose me with something new. I am finally getting control of my anxiety. I finally started working with self-help books and the right therapist, but it took me 6 years and over 7 therapists to find the right therapist. Now a few of my anxiety symptoms are disappearing or at least recurring less frequently. Maybe you just haven't found the right person to talk to? The right therapist will leave you feeling a little drained from the session, but feeling better emotionally/mentally than when you got there.

Good Luck.

Valerieanne

My son is a doctor - and he often tells me that I need to get more hobbies and interests to take my mind off of worrying more. He tells me that sitting or lieing too much and worrying is the worst thing I can do for my depression and anxiety.

I hope you will be feeling better real soon.

Love, Raoul